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Getting a list of public images

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Updated at November 5, 2024

When creating a VM, you need to select its image with the software that you want to use.

You can view a list of public images when creating a virtual machine:

  1. In the management console, select the folder to create the virtual machine in.
  2. At the top right, click Create resource.
  3. In the list that opens, select Virtual machine instance.
  4. Under Boot disk image, click Show all Marketplace products. A list of all available public images will appear.

To view information about a specific image, click .

If you do not have the Yandex Cloud command line interface yet, install and initialize it.

To get a list of available images using the CLI, run this command:

yc compute image list --folder-id standard-images

Result:

+----------------------+-------------------------------------+--------------------------+----------------------+--------+
|          ID          |                NAME                 |          FAMILY          |     PRODUCT IDS      | STATUS |
+----------------------+-------------------------------------+--------------------------+----------------------+--------+
...
| fdvk34al8k5n******** | centos-7-1549279494                 | centos-7                 | dqni65lfhvv2******** | READY  |
| fdv7ooobjfl3******** | windows-2016-gvlk-1548913814        | windows-2016-gvlk        | dqnnc72gj2is******** | READY  |
| fdv4f5kv5cvf******** | ubuntu-1604-lts-1549457823          | ubuntu-1604-lts          | dqnnb6dc7640******** | READY  |
...
+----------------------+-------------------------------------+--------------------------+----------------------+--------+
  1. Get an IAM token used for authentication in the examples:
  2. Get the list of public images from Yandex Cloud using the list REST API method for the Image resource or the ImageService/List gRPC API call. In the request, specify the following parameters:
    • Specify standard-images as the folder ID.
    • The folder contains many images, so specify pageSize=1000 or use the obtained value of nextPageToken to get the next page.

Write the result to a file, e.g., output.json:

export IAM_TOKEN=CggaATEVAgA...
curl \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer ${IAM_TOKEN}" \
  "https://compute.api.cloud.yandex.net/compute/v1/images?folderId=standard-images&pageSize=1000" > output.json

You can also view information about all available public images in Cloud Marketplace.

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